Campaign of the Month:
September 2012

A Manifestation of Chaos

ABOUTTHEGROUP:

This campaign was founded in Feb 2011, although we did not join the Obsidian Portal until June of 2011. We are a mature group of friends who come together on most Sundays to save Oerth from all that threatens it. I have gamed with several members of this group for nearly a decade and our newest member for just under two months. Even though we are all busy adults with families and careers, every member contributes to make this game/group the best it can be.

Love the attitudes and the occurrences, even after this time…. Aegon telling a 20th level person that he is not worthy, Will stepping down and having the skull’s mouth crash upon him… great work, as always….

Thanks Twiggs – the pictures are a quality is a little off but the company that makes the 3-d dungeon terrain is called Dwarven Forge. There stuff sets the gold standard in terrain pieces lately I have been running into fantastic deals on it and have acquired about 30 sets over the last year.

Wow! I love that physical mapping out of the dungeon on 30 Jan 2013. I wish we had the time and resources for such things. However, our vinyl grid mat actually serves quite well. But it is still nice to see a whole dungeon laid out, walls and all! Yummee!

Thanks Twiggs :) It was a graft of an adventure I had written for another group and another campaign a few years ago, but never got to run. The last part of the adventure was wrapped up on Sunday. The guys did great and almost worked through every challenge exactly as they should have. I look forward to putting my player hat back on :)

Session 59: “No…Not the Children!”
Wow! Epic session! Looks like it was run by Maelstrom808. That must have been a heavy time, judging the written descriptions and excellent pics of MINIs on the Battlefield!
Well done Brightwing, Blaine, Kaden, Draghkar, Tain and Gilnaeus!

I have run numerous playtests with the advanced race guide and these mirror similar simulations that I ran when the Savage Species came out. It speaks to your credit that you have allowed the Gnoll and Minotaur to your races. Some of the best potential exists to maximize builds with these two races. Many people under-value them based on Krynn or other bastardizations. Consider the flavor and awe of a mighty minotaur smashing with a Greataxe (Buffed) and few others except for the Druid or Magus can defeat him one on one. Certain Minotaur barbarian builds can even counter pesky arcane types. Keep and eye out for my upcoming class guides. You will be able to stump your GM by following my number-crunched creations. Cheers!

Congratulations on Session 51, Gilnaeus, Kolev, Entil-Zha, Dvorki, Gyffry, Omen II, Caldin and Gorruk! Treasure chests, gas traps (watch those fingers, Kolev!), Resilient Spheres, upside-down burning celestials and a halfling-sized gem (My Gosh, that’s a big one!). As if this isn’t enough, you then have to deal with animated statues firing Magic Missiles and have your own Magic Missiles malfunctioning. Good job for Dvorkin’s Flame Strike and those scrolls of Greater Teleport always come in handy. The drinks are on ME in Greyhawk tonight!

lol “D.R.” is not just gaming with us, he is our babies godfather! AND is playing santa clause for her first bday! AND is cooking all our turkey legs for thanksgiving! lol AND we don’t let his medical problem of flatulence or lack of hygiene (aside from that one week where he was especially stinky) of his 18 hours making characters for us either!

BTW – “when McGregor bought it when you were Dming” – I Still protest that as an invalid death as I was not running the character when it occured. But Mcgregor’s are like bad pennies, they always show up.

Killer VP – Construction will hopefully be going ahead in the next couple months – As far as nominating for COTM – it would be a huge honor to join esteemed Campaigns such as yours, Twigs and Stephen’s and many others. I think we have the content to be in that conversation however I think we are still a ways off in some areas such as character consistancy, navagation and visuals. We are going to plugging away and in truth it would be an honor just to be nominated.

Twigs – Glad you liked the dungeon crawl effect. It was fun to plan those sessions and to DM as the players moved through the ‘lair’. Suspense and pregnant pauses can be useful tools in the DM asenal and sometimes the hardest to be disciplined to maintain.

I also always enjoy the connect/disconnect between the PCs as heroes and townsfolk in their day to day lives.

I am already preparing the next group of sessions for when Leonidas is done with this next stint of DMing.

Some of my favorite gaming of all time was in the realms of greyhawk…still have the original boxed set and a bunch of the original modules…slavers, giants, barrier peaks etc. Definitely going to look around to adventure in Oerth again.

Thanks for the praise, I have a pretty awesome group who consistently challenge me and contribute to uping our game. Please feel free to use anything you think you can from our site, thank-you for asking; sharing with our fellow gamers is one of the reasons we keep our site open to the public.

Thank-you, for the praise. Look back in a couple weeks and I hope to have the most complete listing of Greyhawk Deities (Human and Non-human) Updated to Pathfinder including sub-domains. it will be about 350 Deities in all.